MR DON ROWLANDS
Don Rowlands is Director of the Centre for Journalism Studies, University College, Cardiff, where he runs courses both for new graduates and for mid-career journalists. He was previously Director of the Thorson Foundation, one of the world's leading media training institutions, and brought more than 800 journalists from 84 countries to Britain for advanced courses. He has travelled widely in Asia, Africa and the Arab World to advise on media problems, and spent two months in Beijing in 1981 training editorial staff for the launch of "China Daily". He had previously visited China in 1945, as a naval reporter with the British Pacific Fleet in Hong Kong. Don Rowlands has worked as a journalist for 20 years on morning, evening and Sunday newspapers, and was editor-in-chief of the "Western Mail", the national daily of Wales, 1959-64.
MISS MONICA SIMS
Miss Monica Sims retired from the BBC in 1984 after a long and distinguished career in both radio and television spanning over 30 years. She was editor of the daily radio programme, "Woman's Hour" in the Sixties and later was Head of BBC Television's Children's Programmes for 11 years. She returned to radio in 1978 to run BBC Radio 4 the national news, current affairs and speech channel. She was promoted to be Director of Programmes, BBC Radio in 1983. Since retiring she has taken up the post of Director of Productions, Children's Film and Television Foundation. She is also a Vice-President of the British Board of Film Classification.
DR ROBERT TOWLER
Dr Towler was Head of Research at the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) from 1983 to 1987. In March, 1987 he takes up the post of Commissioning Editor, Religious Programmes at Channel Four Television. Prior to joining the IBA he was Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Leeds. His research has been principally in the field of sociology of religion on which he has published three books. At the IBA he is responsible for all non-engineering research, and in particular for audience research. Of particular concern have been issues of what televised material is compatible with current British standards of "public taste and decency", and concern about possible links between the televised portrayal of violence and levels of actual violence and aggression. He is closely involved with the work of the Broadcasters' Audience Research Board (BARB), which conducts continuous research on the size of the audience for television and on the reactions of viewers to the programmes which are broadcast. Among projects for which he has been responsible is one which video-records families watching television in their own homes, using a camera located discreetly in the television itself.
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